hal-disable-polling assert failure: *** buffer overflow detected ***: hal-disable-polling terminated

[Noorez]

Binary package hint: hal

This occurred immediately after installing the laptop mode tools.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: hal 0.5.14-5+svn1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** buffer overflow detected ***: hal-disable-polling terminated
Date: Sat Apr 16 22:56:21 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/hal-disable-polling
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110413)
ProcCmdline: hal-disable-polling --enable-polling --device /dev/scd0
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: hal
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
 __fortify_fail () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
Title: hal-disable-polling assert failure: *** buffer overflow detected ***: hal-disable-polling terminated
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #730354, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Oliver Joos (oliver-joos)]

Bug 730354 is private and I don't know how to mark it public. If you do, please mark it public and re-mark this bug as duplicate of it.

[Oliver Joos (oliver-joos)]

This workaround prevents the crash (side effects not clear to me):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/laptop-mode-tools/+bug/779435/comments/4

[Oliver Joos (oliver-joos)]

Please note: this bug could also be another symptom of the much older bug 530569.

[alex (alexhuang1984)]

*** buffer overflow detected ***: hal-disable-polling terminated
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x37)[0x7fd58e2371d7]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0xfd0f0)[0x7fd58e2360f0]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0xfd70b)[0x7fd58e23670b]
hal-disable-polling[0x401579]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xff)[0x7fd58e157eff]
hal-disable-polling[0x400f29]

[dino99 (9d9)]

eol reached https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases